Foundation Creates Micro-Lending for Local Entrepreneurs

HONESDALE -- A new micro revolving loan program is being created at the Wayne County Community Foundation. The Circle of Aunts and Uncles is a revolving loan fund housed and managed by The Wayne County Community Foundation, a 501(c)3 foundation, operating...

Wayne Memorial Launches Food Prescription Program

HONESDALE --Wayne Memorial Hospital (WMH) and Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers (WMCHC) supported by a nearly $300,000 grant from the AllOne Foundation will initiate a “Food Prescription Program” later this month. The program, fu...

Stourbridge Solar Project Finds Path w/out Grant Funding

HONESDALE -- After being rejected in two rounds of state grant funding, The Clean Energy Coop has found another way forward for a 33-kilowatt solar array on the roof of The Stourbridge Project, a co-working space and business incubator in a former 1928 sc...

Business Groups Set Stage for Members to Pivot & Prosper

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in mid-March, PA Gov. Tom Wolf closed the doors on “non-essential businesses.” Ask any small business owner, and they are likely to say their business is essential . . . to them.

Membership-driven, busi...

Reviving Agriculture

Agricultural education returns to Wayne County. Learn how Honesdale High School is giving students a chance to pursue an education in agriculture and how a new study offers to bring a new renaissance to the family farm.